The biggest story of the year involved Barrister Charlotte Proudman rebuking a senior solicitor for complimenting her on her LinkedIn profile picture. This story went global and is still being debated by many people today. <pic of Charlotte>

2015 was the year when ordinary LinkedIn users really took to publishing posts.

LinkedIn made a significant attempt to improve groups, upsetting many users, especially group managers in the process

Winbusinessin Podcast

We are now in season 2 of my other podcast which focusses on social selling and business development on LinkedIn. On Tuesday we will be releasing episode 3 which is an interview with Christoph Trappe, a storytelling expert as part of our focus on content marketing.

Why not subscribe to the show on iTunes or go to Winbusinessin to listen to the first 2 episodes?

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Here are 5 things you can do this year to make 2016 your best LinkedIn year ever!

Refresh your profile.

Perhaps now is a good time to get a new profile picture

Revamp your headline. The new mobile only initially shows the first 68 characters of your headline so consider updating it.

Update your summary to express your goals for 2016, this is a great way to show people that you are actively using LinkedIn.

Produce more content.

Commit to writing more content, either LinkedIn posts or blogs on your own website.